Work plan for mercury treatability study in upper east fork Popular Creek at DOE's Y-12 Site in support of the Reduction of Mercury in Plant Effluent program (RMPE)

摘要

Over the past ten years the Department of Energy Y-12 Site's Reduction of Mercury in Plant Effluents (RMPE) project has carried out an aggressive investigative program of identifying sources of mercury which are influencing the levels of mercury in Upper East Fork Popular Creek (UEFPC) and exiting the site at Station 17. The driver for these activities has been and continues to be the site's National Pollution Discharge Elimination Permit (NPDES). This permit establishes certain remedial actions, the schedule for these actions and requires that the mercury in the creek be equal to or less than 5 grams per day by December 31, 1998 and the concentration in the creek be equal to or less than 0.12 (mu) grams per liter on the last day of the permit, April 27, 2000.